Pat Metheny Announces Tour Tied To Ambitious Solo Musical Project
Grammy Award-winning guitarist Pat Metheny has announced a new tour for an ambitious new project. Metheny’s next CD will be the Orchestrion project, where he works solo with what JazzTimes magazine said “might best be described as musical robots.” Orchestrion is a generic name for a machine that plays music and is designed to sound like an orchestra or band. The project represents a recently developed conceptual direction for Metheny that involves the merging of an idea from the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries with the technologies of today to create a project that will only have the guitarist on it and no one else.
His world tour in support of the recording, which will be released early next year, begins in Europe in February of 2010 and moves to the U.S. in early April. A full list of shows is listed at patmetheny.com, where Metheny also writes extensively about the project.
Metheny has recorded more than 30 albums, picking up 17 Grammy Awards along the way. He records solo and with his renowned Pat Metheny Group. Along the way, Metheny has recorded such popular smooth jazz songs as “James,” “Last Train Home,” “Follow Me,” “Chris,” “Facing West” and “Here to Stay.”